Today is All Saints Day or All Hallows, a holy day of obligation for some. To others, it's just the day after Halloween -- a day they forget was once merely All Hallows Eve. Some spend All Hallows recovering from the revelry of the night before, and some are still on the streets i...
• View | Welcome to “The 95 Days of Christmas” • View | The Importance of Luther's 95 Theses In his book on How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Tom Woods overstates the role of the Institutional Church and understates the role of the Bible in the creation of ...
I have discovered that pilgrimages can be undertaken for various reasons, such as fulfilling a religious obligation, seeking spiritual growth, or paying homage to a person, place, or idea. Some popular pilgrimage sites include the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Mecca, Lourdes, and the Holy Land,...
A steaming cob below our vision here asks to eat, but is not to be seen by the likes of us yet. "Merry Christmas, Motherfuckers!" is to Jews only. A past recoiled from it, 1946. Spare the thought of. The bowling ball is from a MasterCard advertisement in People Magazine in early...
A Christmas tree in the hall alongside the church, which was built in 1906 to serve Wales' growing Greek Orthodox community. Church looks like Christmas all year round He admitted no progress had been made in solving the case of the two bishops -- Aleppo's Greek Orthodox Archbishop Boulos ...
This coming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent…and a holy day of obligation. (As in, “required” and “not optional.”) Remembering thatwe are holy to the extent that we daily wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit, let us pray in a special way for Him to move in ...
This was a drug induced episode of which I never ever want to do again. A Golden Night Train kept my soul safe for about a half an hour. At which time I was empty of Hope it was horrible. And even though I still had the gift of the Holy Spirit the comforter, Spirit of Truth…...
To be considered a child of God by God himselfistruly amazing and wonderful! Q1. (1 John 2:29-3:2) In what sense are we "children of God"? What does the Holy Spirit have to do with this "new birth"? How does the new birth change us?
Catholic education in Victoria received an early Christmas present on 9 November when the Labor Government announced that funding for Catholic schools would be increased to 25% of the cost of education in a government school if it wins the state election… ...
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